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Story: Political correctness puts disk drives in a spin

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Slavery has been common throughout history, dating back to the ancient Egyptians and beyond, there's evidence of it being in practise for around 7000 years.

This seems to me to be the knee jerk reaction of one individual and the subsequent overreaction of the county of Los Angeles.

There's an inherrent guilt complex amongst a lot of americans over the fact that slavery wasn't formally abolished in the USA until 1865, little under a hundred and fifty years ago. We Brits have the dubious distinction of having done so 32 years earlier in 1833 but don't seem to have the same hang ups about it. Maybe we're thicker skinned (oh sh*t I mentioned skin attributes, that can't be PC).

I don't personally think we should abolish the terms master/slave because of the neurosis of some Americans, especially as in this context the words have nothing whatsoever to do with the shamefull enslavement of the afro carribean races which occured in the latter have of the last millenium, they describe the topography of mechanical devices, nothing more.

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